Lattin v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.2d 397 · 1966
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Kimbrough v. Beto (1969), Wellnitz v. Page (1970)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · MacHibroda v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · Waley v. Johnston · United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe the evidence available to the court below justified its finding that the plea was voluntary. * * * But the most compelling reason to believe that the plea was voluntary is the fact that at the time the plea was entered, Lattin was represented by a highly capable attorney who had been retained to defend him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lattin“The District Attorney for the State of New Mexico did not threaten Lattin with any action that was illegitimate or any charges that were unrealistic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kimbrough v. Beto“[T]he plea of guilty, in the absence of a showing of prejudice to the accused, was a waiver of all non-jurisdictional defects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vanater v. Boles
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.